Car-seat.



No.'802,519. PATENTED 001. 24,1905.

R, D. LONG.

CAR SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 1905.

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RICHARD D. LONG, OF IOLA, KANSAS.

CAR-"SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24., 1905.

Application flied January 26,1905. Serial No. 242,754.

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Be it known that I, RICHARD D. Lone, a citizen of the United States,residing at Iola, in the county of Allen and State of Kansas, haveinvented a new and useful Car-Seat, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to reversible seats for railway-cars,street-cars, and other vehicles, and has for its object to provide asimple, inexpensive, and eiiicient seat of this character capable ofbeing readily reversed, so as to permit the passengers to face the frontof the car regardless of the direction of travel of the latter.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for limiting thetilting movement of the seat, so that the latter will always bemaintained in a substantially horizontal position with respect to thefloor of the car.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointedout in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that variouschanges in form, proportions, and minor details of construction may beresorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of this invention.

in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a reversible seat constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional Viewshowing in dotted lines the seat in reversed position. Fig. 3 is atransverse sectional view of one of the supporting-feet. Fig. 4: is adetail perspective view of the locking-lug and one of the keepersdetached. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view illustrating a modifiedform of supporting-foot. i

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

The device consists of .a pair of spaced substantially L-shaped bracketsor arms 5, to which is riveted or otherwise rigidly secured the bodyportion 6, the latter comprising a seat portion 7 and a back 8,preferably formed integral with the seat portion, as shown. The

brackets or arms 5 are cast or otherwise formed with spaced lugs or ears9, and pivoted between said ears or lugs, at each end of the bodyportion, is a pair of levers 10 and 11, the opposite ends of which arepivoted between the u pwardly-extending cars 12 of supporting-feet 13.The feet 13 are rigidly secured to the floor or platform of the car andare provided with alined openings 14 for the reception of set-screws 15,the ends of which are pointed, as indicated at 16, and engagecorresponding sockets 17 in the ends of the lovers 10 and 11, so as toform cone-bearings and permit the seat to be readily detached withoutthe necessity of first removing said feet. The levers 10 and 11 of eachpair are connected by a longitudinal brace or red 18, and the upperpivotal points 19 of said levers are disposed closer together than theirlower pivotal points. so that when the body portion is moved or tiltedbackward or forward the latter will make a quarter-turn, which causesthe relative positions of the back and seat to be reversed, as clearlyshown by dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

As a means for limiting the tilting movement of the body portion andretaining the seat proper of the latter in" a substantially horizontalposition with respect to the floor of the car I rivet or otherwiserigidly secure to one end of said body portion a plate 20, provided witha depending locking-lug 21. The lug 21 is disposed at the juncture ofthe back and seat, as shown, and is adapted to enter or engageretaining-clips 22, secured to the side of the car, so that when thebody portion is tilted in either direction and the seat assumes ahorizontal position the lug, by engagement with the adjacent clip, willprevent any furthermovement of said body portion. It will here be notedthat the retainingclips 22 are secured to the side of the car on eachside of the vertical axis of the car-seat and arranged at an angle orinclination with respect thereto to thereby facilitate the introductionof the locking-lug.

In Fig. 5 there is illustrated a modified form of supporting-foot, inwhich the adjustingscrews are dispensed with and a pin 23 issubstituted.

WVhile the seat is illustrated as a car-seat and is described as such,it is obvious that the same may be used in school-houses, churches,parks, private dwellings, or other places where a reversible seat ofthis character is found desirable.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. Thecombination with a support, of a body portion comprising a pair ofmembers the positions of which are reversible to form either a back orseat, a retaining-clip secured to the support, and a locking-lugdisposed at the juncture of said members and adapted to engage saidclip.

2. The combination with a support, of a body portion comprising a pairof members the positions of which are reversible to form either a backor seat, a pair of retaining-clips secured to the support and disposedone on each side of the vertical axis of the body portion, and alocking-lug disposed at the juncture of said members and adapted toengage the clips.

3. The combination with a support, of a body portion comprising a pairof members the positions of which are reversible to form either a backor seat, a pair of retaining-clips secured to the support and disposedone on each side of the vertical axis of the body portion, and a platesecured to one end of the body portion at the juncture of said membersand provided with a depending lug adapted to engage the retaining-clips,said clips being disposed at an angle to the vertical axis of the bodyportion.

4. The combination with a support, of a body portion comprising a pairof members the positions of which are reversible to form either a backor seat, a plurality of supporting-feet provided with spaced perforatedlugs, levers pivoted to the body portion and engaging the lugs of saidfeet, screws engaging the perforations in the lugs and. provided withconical bearings forming pivotal connections between the adjacent end ofsaid levers and the supporting-feet, and a locking means disposed at thejuncture of said members for engagement with the support.

5. The combination with a support, of a body portion comprising a pairof angularlydisposed members the positions of which are reversible toform either a back or seat, brackets provided with spaced depending lugssecured to the body portion, levers pivoted between the depending lugsof the brackets, supporting-feet pivoted to the opposite ends of thelevers, and a locking means disposed at the juncture of said members forengagement with the support.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signaturein the presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD D. LONG. Witnesses:

FRANK E. SMITH,

OTTO S. HEBERLING.

